I love history, antiques, vintage and the women’s clothing! I am, however so thankful we do not wear corsets nor do I have to wear a griddle!!! I agree Jacqui bras are bad enough ~ awwwwww… the freedoms of today!

I browsed around this topic in my research. I’m not sure Feminists have cause to blame men for this torture. Every culture has body modification. Women seem to pick up what attracts a man’s eye then things spin out of control. Women without doubt feel more societal pressure but the pressure seems to come from other women. Catch the end of the Western, Cat Ballou, and ask if there is any doubt that some women will have genetically grown tails in the near future. Even the standard ponytail may have something to do with the wiggle in in a woman’s walk.

I’m in agreement with you 🙂 I’m reminded of a few years back when Jessica Simpson was crucified for wearing high waisted jeans then a few months later I noticed the jeans featured in women’s magazines as a great new trend. We women can sometimes be a bit ridiculous, but then men can be, too.

Okay, someone feel free to slap me a couple of times with a copy of ‘Ms’ magazine. 😀 But the clothing over the undergarments did look pretty. Still, glad it is not today’s fashion. No wonder women needed to carry smelling salts…

I admit, I haven’t a clue if MS or COSMO still exist. I’m lucky to find the time to flip through my writing magazines! 😀

Interesting though… ‘Ms.’ during its heyday was all about empowering women to take their place in the Board Room. From what I’ve heard about ‘Cosmo,’ it pretty much empowers women only in the bedroom. Although I say that without reading the publication. I could be totally off base. But if it’s true, women haven’t really made many strides in terms of serious equality. Ah, but that’s for another discussion! 😀

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Adrienne Morris is author of the novel The House on Tenafly Road (selected as an Editors' Choice Book by The Historical Novel Society and a Notable Indie Book of the Year) and The Tenafly Road Series, the continuing historical saga of the Weldon and Crenshaw families of Gilded Age Englewood, New Jersey.
“I write literary sagas because I love people. I love their flaws. I love their dreams and deceptions. Historical fiction allows me to reckon with thoughts and feelings I’d rather not address in the here and now. There’s a certain safety and freedom in placing personal revelations one hundred years behind you.”
Musty old libraries, abandoned houses and corsets bring to life the many characters crowding Adrienne’s imagination, but it’s the discovery that people, no matter the century they live in, share the same struggles, hopes and desires (the greatest desire being love) that keeps her up at night writing.
Adrienne lives on a small upstate New York farm with her human and animal family.

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